fah! FS's reply tells you a lot of fracking nothing, "yeah, we know it don't work", well FS so do we, and want to know what your going to do about it!
think I'll copy that out and send it to them, the buggers. elf"Three things that should NEVER! be brought together; a laptop computer, a full cup of coffee, and a sneeze!"
- Unknown Author------ Original Message ----- From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:52 PM Subject: RE: FW: Silverlight accessibility (fwd)
Did you respond with how NVDA works with it or how windoweyes at least does more than jaws?Take care, Sina -----Original Message-----From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal MazruiSent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 7:58 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Fwd: FW: Silverlight accessibility (fwd) Here is the response I got from FS on this topic. Jamal -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: FW: Silverlight accessibility (fwd) Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 23:55:02 -0400 From: Freedom Scientific Support <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Organization: Freedom Scientific To: <empower@xxxxxxxxx> CC: EResponse <E_Response@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Dear JamalThank you for contacting Freedom Scientific technical Support. SilverLight's accessibility does not include support for text edit areas. This is the reason for the JAWSR screen reading software issues with SilverLight. If I can be of any additional assistanceto you, feel free to email me back.Be sure to include all previous correspondence pertaining to this matter when replying to this message so that we might betterassist you. Regards, Mr. Tracey Jackson, Technical Support Specialist Freedom Scientific Phone support: 727 803 8600, option #2E-mail Support: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Visit our website at: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Jamal Mazrui [mailto:empower@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:43 PM To: Freedom Scientific Technical Support; Eric Damery Subject: Re: Silverlight accessibility (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 10:10:03 -0500 From: qubit <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Silverlight accessibilityHi Jamal -- Perhaps this is an afterthought, but have you forwarded this information to FS support? (They have enough to deal with with the stuff I have forwarded to them, but maybe this is something that needs to beaddressed.) --le ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx> To: <JAWSScripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 9:54 AM Subject: Silverlight accessibilityFYI: I just tried the following Silverlight site with the latest versions of three screen readers:http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=wisyou It seemed to work well with NVDA 2010.1, worked partially with Window-Eyes 7.2 public beta 1, and did not work at all with JAWS 11.0.756.I thought one of the major feature enhancements of JAWS 11 is support for UIA, the accessibility API that Silverlight uses instead of MSAA (Silverlight controls are a subset of Windows Presentation Foundation, the successor to Windows Forms in the .NET Framework). Is some kind of manual configuration needed to make the latest JAWS work with Silverlight? I tried both IE 7 andFirefox 3.6. Jamal __________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind__________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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